Not sure of your HR's, but with the fall of HK imminent, I would start thinking about retracting your perimeter. HK->Tokyo is 37 hexes ... to Osaka 33 ... Once he has HK, its better than owning the Marianas for the allies as it can be a AF9 for his 4E's. As the allies, I wouldn't even care about the Marianas any more ... I've essentially bypassed them for a better base ... Formosa would be my next target if I were the allies ... Just me though ... no idea how your opponent will see things.

I managed to sneak the full 10 CV, 25 ship KB to within 6 hexes of Rabaul, where they pulled off a perfectly co-ordinated port/airfield attack. However the results were quite disappointing. I lost 170 planes, and possibly because of the Severe Storms weather did not annihilate the shipping at the port in quite the way I had wanted.

Still, no harm done. The carriers will head for home un-touched and I have plenty of planes and pilots to re-build the airgroups.

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Well done. Weather can mess up the best laid plans, unfortunately. Still, deep strikes and surprises often have a strong impact on conservative players, so perhaps this will cause a misallocation of resources by the Allies.

Well done. Weather can mess up the best laid plans, unfortunately. Still, deep strikes and surprises often have a strong impact on conservative players, so perhaps this will cause a misallocation of resources by the Allies.

+1

Way to keep him reacting to you!

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Well done. Weather can mess up the best laid plans, unfortunately. Still, deep strikes and surprises often have a strong impact on conservative players, so perhaps this will cause a misallocation of resources by the Allies.

Not much going on. Ponape gets bombed, as it has every single day for a long time now. I keep the small garrison alive by sub transport of supplies. He could take the base very easily but does not seem interested.

Meanwhile, over on the Asian mainland Operation Squelch is progressing well. The enemy has seemingly not detected our intentions at all, and will be hard pushed to react anyway given his dispositions.

This agglomeration of fighters (combined with the serious engineering and flak at the base) is his #1 problem right now. It complete stops him doing Naval Attack anywhere in the vicinity which allows me to ship stuff around at will. He will also given his nature be very reluctant to place shipping anywhere nearby since I have demonstrated more than once how deadly 250kg bombs can be when delivered by fighters at low level.

Of course any amount of fighters and flak cannot prevent Naval Bombardments. So it is necessary to keep surface combat TFs at the base to prevent or at least minimise this risk.

Here are some of the current defenders. Not very fearsome, but they have also done sterling service depositing and withdrawing the harassment forces on the mainland.

The main thing that prevents Kiungshan from being nuked from the sea is its location "behind" the Hainan island land mass. Ships coming from Cam Ranh Bay cannot get into bombardment position without exposing themselves to air attack first.

One of the main reasons, along with your novel approach, that your AAR is fun to follow.

I'm kind of in the opposite camp. I want more! To study and learn from these games it is great to see some details.

I probably post too many CR, but it's fun for me to go through them, as I see more stuff that happened, plus with an opponent's AAR going, I just like knowing the info is out there for people to compare and assess. Helps the commentary I think, and keeps me objective.

Which brings me to my point about this AAR. I'd love to see a bit more, understand your situation better as it's such a unique strategy, and so well carried out thus far. At least some maps would be really good. No need to annotate then, just situation shots more regularly.

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